This was a pretty low key weekend, full of social gigs and chores. In there, I managed to get ready for our tax appointment next weekend, and finish Aliette de Bodard’s Master of the House of Darts, thus making me three for three on her Aztec murder mystery set from Angry Robot.
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I’ve also gotten four very different sets of feedback from readers of The Two Sisters, the current name of the fantasy short that I’m working on. Interestingly, as I look over the feedback there are two things going on: readers are lost. This is because I know this scenario intimately, and I’ve forgotten what my audience doesn’t know. Also, this is so 2009. I’ve assumed the prose is good, but it’s overelaborate, doesn’t start where it needs to, and doesn’t have enough of the right information.
I am spending this week working on the horror short, so I can get it out there and get some readers while I revise the tar out of fantasy short. Yay. I don’t mind leaving Octavia and Lucy for a bit. Disturbing things just happened in that book, and it’s okay to let it sit for a while. My deadline to get these stories submitted is the 31st, and I hope to be back in the novel saddle about a week before that.
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I continue to find agents, good agents, to send Abigail Rath Versus Blood Sucking Fiends to, so I will do this until I run out of well, you know, agents I like the look of. For those of you keeping count, Abigail is novel number six. (One doesn’t count the thesis. Definitely non-fiction.). The ones that have almost made it are one, three and six. Two and five? Even I can see they were hot messes. Three was Hulk Hercules, written for hire. No pattern discernible here.
Okay, so in fifteen minutes I’m off to work on a classic fairy tale horror thing with a bit of a modern twist. Tomorrow, then.
